A Short Walk Through Vendel Time: Vada Sjökullar’s Sea Mounds and Burial Ridges

Settle into a compact hour that unfolds the Vendel period at Vada Sjökullar. The guided visit traces the era that prefigured the Viking Age — a landscape of centralized farms, long-distance trade and competitive chiefs — and stops at the few visible remnants today: three mighty burial mounds near Vada church and Brottby. Expect an interpretive focus on social honor, funerary ritual, crafts and the regional networks that once converged here.

Highlights

Outing Highlights

THE HISTORY

Three Vendel-era burial mounds

See the remaining monumental mounds at Vada Sjökullar and learn how they mark a former central place where elites displayed wealth and power during the Vendel period (500–800 AD).

THE CULTURE

Rituals, crafts and social life

The guide interprets Vendel funeral rituals, agricultural life, clothing, craftsmanship and the pagan religion that shaped local social dynamics before the Viking Age.

THE ROUTE

Vada as a central place and corridor

Learn how Vada functioned as a central place in the 7th century, its connections to regional routes such as Långhundraleden, and the roles of large farms and trade in the Mälardalen valley.

THE HISTORY

Three Vendel-era burial mounds

See the remaining monumental mounds at Vada Sjökullar and learn how they mark a former central place where elites displayed wealth and power during the Vendel period (500–800 AD).

THE CULTURE

Rituals, crafts and social life

The guide interprets Vendel funeral rituals, agricultural life, clothing, craftsmanship and the pagan religion that shaped local social dynamics before the Viking Age.

THE ROUTE

Vada as a central place and corridor

Learn how Vada functioned as a central place in the 7th century, its connections to regional routes such as Långhundraleden, and the roles of large farms and trade in the Mälardalen valley.